After two decades of mocking the powerful as a columnist and screenwriter, Belal Fadl has been blacklisted, with no newspaper in Egypt willing to defy the government by hiring him.
The government told foreign correspondents that they are free to work in Egypt after prosecutors accused 20 journalists for Al Jazeera television of conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Egyptian prosecutors said that the journalists, all employees of the Al Jazeera television network, worked to help and spread propaganda for the Muslim Brotherhood.
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The journalists from Al Jazeera English face charges that include belonging to a terrorist group and harming Egypt’s reputation abroad.
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The arrests of people working for the Al Jazeera English news channel appeared aimed at deterring journalists from reporting on the Muslim Brotherhood’s continuing protests.
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A correspondent for Al Jazeera is arrested while other journalists are scolded for failing to portray the crackdown in the government’s terms: as a war against violent terrorists.
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Hamas closed news media offices and a television production company for what it called the spreading of false reports and working for Israeli television.
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The authorities shuttered some television stations, and the tone of some state news media also seemed to shift, to reflect the interests of those now in charge.
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